A glance through the content of this post reveals just how varied the work is, and how much is going on, carried out largely by…
For this post we have an eclectic mix of projects from the workshops and out on site… Rowley Station Below: With the assistance of the…
A mixed assortment of news this week… Vehicles Below: Following the successful installation of the refurbished engine (with new, to this bus, block), the old…
This week’s post is more of an interim one as I haven’t been around the site as much during the week… Steam Operations Below: Rambler,…
More updates on ongoing projects and maintenance this week… The RHEC is making headway on a number of fronts, some of which are smaller jobs…
A good deal of news from the machine shop this week… The Dandy coach is also progressing well, with varnishing and cosmetic detailing underway whilst…
This week we see progress on vehicles and rolling stock – the high mileages of the bus and tram fleet being particularly noticeable at this…
A shorter report this time – just to bring readers up to date on the items reported in post number 11… Rowley Station Below: The…
More news from the RHEC in this post… On site work continues to repaint the Colliery screens/winder house building. The school holidays have begun too…
Welcome back to the Beamish Transport Blog… As many of you will know, the original site suffered some issues recently, not least an amount of…
There has been a bit of an interruption to blog posts lately – the site is to be migrated to a new server and so…
Welcome back! After a few weeks break, posts are now resumed… Whilst I was enjoying a week in Wales, then at home and finally at…
A shorter report this week, before a break for a couple of weeks… Plenty going on so there should be plenty to report in the next post…
More of the same this week, with a lot of progress on all fronts, as you will read below… Rowley Station Below: Rob, one of…
Where are the weeks going? I can’t believe it is late July now and the summer, so much anticipated, is now well underway (and raining!). …
This week I’ve mixed news with some archive material that I thought readers might enjoy. We also look at the formal launch of the accessible…
Normal service is resumed in this post – with the latest progress from around the workshops. We also have No.18 back in traffic in the…
Looking back at some influential publications… For this post I thought I would take a little look into a series of books that have provided, and…
This week we have a more varied collection of news snippets, as various projects progress, some new ones appear and others draw (I really hope!)…
This week we look at the vehicles in and around the workshops, these being the subject of the efforts of various teams of staff and…
There has been a bit of a quiet spell on the blog lately – partly as not too much ‘new’ news occurred to report and…
It has been an eventful few weeks, though I apologise that blog coverage has been a little stifled lately. It has another small extension of…
We look at a couple of projects in a reasonable amount of depth in this post, in order to give them coverage they had otherwise…
Well, nearly two weeks have passed since the whirlwind that was the 2017 Great North Steam Fair. The event can be considered to have been…
What a contrast in weather! Day three has been spectacularly busy, perhaps one of the busiest days we’ve had for a steam fair. We start…





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